Jazz News

Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong

Source: Michael Ricci
April 29, 2010

By Daniel Kassell Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong Terry Teachout Hardcover; 496 pages ISBN: 978-0-15-101089-9 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2010 Terry Teachout explained in the Afterward that he's the first jazz bassist to produce a fully researched biography prepared recently as an exercise in synthesis. The Prologue is a summary of Pops life, an essay titled “The Cause of Happiness," the ...

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53rd Annual Monterey Jazz Festival

Source: All About Jazz
April 28, 2010

53rd Annual Monterey Jazz Festival Presented By Verizon Features Legendary Jazz Icons, Visionary New Artists, Classic Collaborations, International Array of Multi-Cultural Performances September 17 - 19, 2010

500 Artists to Perform on 8 Stages for 3 Nights and 2 Days of Nonstop Jazz with Tickets Available from Only $35.

2010 Monterey Jazz Festival Artist Highlights

* The return of jazz legends Chick Corea, Dianne Reeves, Roy Hargrove, Chris Potter, Christian McBride, Billy Childs, Kenny Garrett, and more

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Jazz off inn Banff

Source: All About Jazz
April 28, 2010

Banff International Workshop in Jazz and Creative Music Program dates: May 17, 2010 - June 5, 2010 Application deadline: January 15, 2010

Being here at Banff made me realize that each artist has the duty of presenting their art with honesty and clarity, through whatever moves their heart and hopefully moves the audience into that world. James B. Lewis, 2009 Workshop

The Banff Centre is Canada's creative leader in arts and culture.

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New iPhone Expected at Apple Developer Conference

Source: All About Jazz
April 28, 2010

Apple announced the dates Wednesday of its Worldwide Developers Conference, where the company is expected to introduce a new iPhone (even though tech blog Gizmodo may have spoiled the surprise). Taking place June 7 to June 11 at San Franciscos Moscone West convention hall, the five-day conference includes hands-on sessions for software developers to become familiar with iPhone OS 4 and Mac OS X. In previous WWDC events, Apple has announced new products during a keynote presentation that kicks off ...

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Aspen Jazz Festival

Source: All About Jazz
April 28, 2010

The Aspen Jazz Festival presents the best of jazz to audiences visiting the Aspen area through world-class festivals, performances, and education programs. If you want to sit back, relax, and enjoy a few excellent jazz performances from talented artists, this is definitely the place to be in the summertime. The festival first began as a 3-day event in June - now it has evolved into a festival consisting of a long series of paid and free concerts. If you're not ...

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CareFusion Newport Jazz Festival

Source: All About Jazz
April 28, 2010

George Wein announced today that specially priced $50. general admission tickets for the Newport Folk Festival and the CareFusion Jazz Festival will continue to be available for purchase at the Newport Visitor Information Center through the end of April.

Complete Lineup August 6th thru August 8th 2010

Friday, August 06, 2010 Doors 6:00 PM / Show 8:00 PM

International Tennis Hall of Fame Jamie Cullum Grace Kelly

Saturday, August 07, 2010

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Senators Ask Facebook to Fix Privacy to New Features

Source: Michael Ricci
April 28, 2010

Lawmakers are asking Facebook Inc. to roll back a new feature that they say invades the privacy of the popular online social networks more than 400 million users. On Tuesday, four U.S. senators objected to the feature that shares information with other websites without the explicit consent of users. They want Facebook to make the feature that currently personalizes content on three other websites opt in. Social networking sites have become the Wild West of the Internet, said Sen. Charles ...

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Doesn't Believe in Privacy

Source: All About Jazz
April 28, 2010

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg appears to have been outed as not caring one whit about your privacy a jarring admission, considering how much of our personal data Facebook owns, not to mention its plans to become the webs central repository for our preferences and predilections. Also interesting is how this came about: Not in a proper article, but in a tweet by Nick Bilton, lead technology blogger for the The New York Times Bits Blog, based on a conversation he ...

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